Answers: A Christmas Carol

Here are the answers to my Dickens — A Christmas Carol Quiz at WordWenches Blog:

1. Dickens originally wrote A Christmas Carol…
   a) because his wife was pregnant and he needed the money 
2. How long did Dickens take to write A Christmas Carol?
   c) six weeks 
3. The story was originally published…
   b)  in serial form in a magazine  
4. When A Christmas Carol was published…
   b) Dickens published it at his own expense 
5. The book was a huge artistic success but…
   d) it wasn’t a financial success  
6. When Dickens’ was twelve, his father was imprisoned for…
   b) debt
7. The tale was influenced by Dickens’s own life. As a boy he was forced to work…
   a) in a shoe blacking factory
8. His fellow workers referred to the 12 year old Dickens as…
   c) “the young gentleman”
9. In an early draft of the manuscript, Tiny Tim was called…
   d) Little Fred  
10. The original manuscript gave no hint of the fate of Tiny Tim but at the last minute Dickens inserted a sentence that indicated Tiny Tim did not die and that Scrooge became a second father to him. The reason Dickens did this is…
    b) not known

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